Dido & Aeneas Tim Hochstrasser 23/05/2026 627In his excellent programme note Michael Burden points out that we know very little about the origins and performance circumstances...
The Master Builder Katerina Gotsi 22/05/2026 391Ambition, guilt, desire, and the fear of decline lie at the heart of Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder, one of...
Reviewer's rating A Tale of Two Cities Jad Adams 22/05/2026 520There are problems with adaptations of Dickens which are hard to surmount. His novels were published serially so their structure...
Quartet in Autumn Julie Peakman 21/05/2026 1080 Barbara Pym’s novels are always particularly heart-warming, if a little sad. Author Samantha Harvey has successfully adapted the book...
Un Ballo in Maschera Josi Steinfeld 21/05/2026 906In 1857, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples commissioned Giuseppe Verdi to compose a new opera. He chose Un Ballo...
Reviewer's rating Churchill’s Urinal Jad Adams 20/05/2026 454Rosie Holt brightened the Covid years with her social media posts as an unconsciously self-satirising Tory lady. With her sleek...
Sherlock Holmes Sara Tiron 19/05/2026 610At Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Sherlock Holmes transforms detective fiction into something vividly alive. Written by Joel Horwood and...
Stage Kiss Rivka Jacobson 18/05/2026 451Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss, directed here by Blanche McIntyre, begins as a sparkling backstage comedy in which two actors, cast...
An Ideal Husband Soyoon Koo 17/05/2026 459Oscar Wilde’s “lamia-like” Mrs. Cheveley archly poses to Sir Robert Chiltern, “Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.” Wilde’s world...
Work While They Sleep Sara Tiron 16/05/2026 295There is a strong and timely idea at the centre of Work While They Sleep: what happens when even sleep...
